University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications

The College’s Center for Media Innovation and Research launched last week The Journalism Now Podcast, hosted and produced by my colleague and friend Dave Stanton.
I’m involved to the extent that I provide the Web server infrastructure for the site. The site was originally launched on one of our weakest servers. Last week before the podcast [...]

It’s infrastructure week here with lots of behind-the-scenes coding going on with several of the sites. One such task was changing the RSS code library, which drives the news items on the home page, from Magpie RSS to SimplePie. Among the reasons for this is that SimplePie provides Plug-ins for Textpattern and WordPress, both of [...]

I was joined in blogging on this server this week by Cory Armstrong, the first faculty member who asked me to set up a WordPress instance for her.
Also on the blogging front, Summer Times 2006, the student publication of the Summer Journalism Institute, was published on this site in the form of a WordPress blog. [...]

I have spent a lot of time the past couple of weeks making page updates generated by the department chairs. There were also a whole bunch of title changes on July 1 that were taken care of about two weeks ago.
A new database server has also been built and I am in the process of [...]